Student debt is so inescapable that even those who made payments during the pandemic freeze still owe more money than they originally borrowed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Insider previously reported that after the passage of the Higher Education Act in 1965, banks began raising interest rates on student loans, and the system came to profit lenders at the expense of pushing more borrowers further into debt and default.
41% : "It really is a debtors' prison," David Wise, a 59-year-old who started with $79,000 in student debt and now owes $236,485, previously told Insider.
34% : Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley said in a statement following the extension of the pause that given the $1.7 trillion student-debt crisis, the president must go further and cancel $50,000 in student debt per borrower.

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